Firming Up Sagging Breasts using Several Natural Techniques

As you are getting older, your breasts appearance is not the same again. Many activities you have since you were young have make your breast sagged. Some of these activities are having kids, diet, breastfeeding, and natural aging. Having perfect breasts just like those of young women is a dream of many women. Here is a good news: you can do it naturally without any surgeries. Well, perhaps you have to keep in mind that whatever procedures you undergo, both surgery and natural technique, you won’t get your breasts as tight as they were when you were teenagers. But, several techniques below could fix up your sagging breasts so that they look nice.

Push Up

You know how to do push up, don’t you? Well, all you need to do is simply flopping down your stomach on the floor and pushing yourself back up with your arms. Some women find that push up is not easy, regarding to their ages, but physically, push up is proven to build muscles around your breasts tissue. A scheduled push up will stretch your breasts muscle and make them look a bit larger.

Weight Winging

Free weight or popularly called dumbbells on each of your hand is a good start to firm up your sagging breasts. Prepare two dumbbells, each weighing around 1-5 pounds. Grip them right on each hand, stand still, hang your hands on every side of your body, and start lifting them up just like flapping your wings. It will increase the strength of muscles on and behind your breasts.

Bench Press

You can do a bench press with light weight you find most comfortale. Bring the weight right down to your chest and lift. Repeat this process several time. Bench pressing can help straightening up your breasts because it targets the effective muscle within your chest. That said, it then pushes your breasts forwards and firms up your sagging breasts.

Arm Resistance

Put your both arms right in front of your body. Make a prayer pose with your arms, bring your hands together, and put your palm right perfectly on the other palm. Press your palms as hard as you can towards each other. Feel the muscles in your breasts: they are triggered. You can also provide yourself an exercise band, an exercise bar weigh with resistance, or with just your bare hands. Press them hard, and release. Repeat this several times until you feel that the muscles in your breasts are stressed. Do some variations like pulling your arms apart with resistance.

Fix Your Posture

Try to stand. Do you stand straight? Check if your belly comes in, then your breasts will be seen a lot more firmer. Poor posture will affect your breasts. Have a good posture whenever you stand or sit. Always sit or stand straight, thrust your chest. It will sometimes become a habit, and it gives you a feel like you are “proud” with your firm breasts.

Firm Breasts Aren't Everything

While these exercises and techniques are able to give strength and enlarge the muscles of your breasts, you need to keep in mind that they do not eventually increase your breast size to the perfect breasts size. These exercises will give a feel that your breasts look nice and less sagging. Some support these techniques by using supportive bra that can make breasts look prominent. Good posture and cloth are also responsible to give the nice look of your breasts. And, again, it takes no surgery just to make the appearance of your breasts better.

Still, whether you choose to do surgery instead, if you do not take care of your breasts by doing exercises, you will just end up spending money and time in vain. Without these exercises, your breasts will start sagging again. Moreover, it is compulsory for every woman to do a so-called breast examination once in every year to make sure that your breasts are not suffering from certain diseases, like cancer. Monthly self examination is recommended too, while most women over 35 years old have to do an annual mammogram.

Breastfeeding Using Implant Breasts

Breastfeeding Function

Breasts are basically a milk-producing glands which are used to feed babies. There is a nipple in an aerola area (or called nipple areola complex—NAC), with varying colors from pink to dark brown. Within this gland, breast milk is produced by lactiferous ducts and distributed throughout the breast. For every breast, there are four until eighteen lactiferous ducts ending to the nipple. The comparison of glands to fat within the breasts tissue is 2 to 1—in lactating women—or 1 to 1—in non-lactating women. Thre are more than just glands inside a woman’s breasts; there are collagen, elastin, fat, and ligaments. There are also nerve system in breasts, where the anterior and lateral branches of the fourth, fifth, and sixth nerves are located. Thoraric spinal nerve 4 or T4 in breasts also supplies a specific sensation to the nipple area.

The most important concerns about breastfeeding is in the potential of digestive contamination and toxicity. If the filler of breast implant device is leaked to the breast milk, it will endanger the baby. Substances contained in a breast implant filler is chemically and biologically inert, because they were made of environmentally common substances like salt water (for the saline filler)—although silicone in the filler is unable to be digested. Besides, experts have said that whatever the reasons, there shouldnot be any contraindication for breastfeeding by women with implanted breasts. In the beginning of the use of breast implant (at early 1990s), perhaps there are many non-technical complains from patients and doctors about possible complications from the implant device. Yet, there is no disease casuality related to the device.

Augmented Breasts

Meanwhile, women with implanted breasts are still able to feed babies using their breasts. But, this implant devices may give a kind of difficulties. Mammoplasty surgery, which includes a periareolar incisions and subglandular replacement, is the main cause of this difficulties. Moreover, other difficulties are about the potential damage of lactiferous ducts and the nerves around the nipple area.

If the surgeon cut the ducts and any major nerves within the breast tissue or if the glands are damaged somehow, possible difficulties risk arises. The first is common to surgical procedures that involve periareolar incision implantation because it cuts breast tissue close to the nipple. In the other hand, other implantation incisions like inframmamory fold, trans-axillary breast augmentation, or trans-umbilical breast augmentation, avoid this step. However, if the patient is serious about the possibilities of this breastfeeding difficulties, she can ask the doctor to make effective the incision step so that the damage of the milk ducts and nerves can be reduced. Basically, only implants that are placed under the gland (or called subglandular implants) and implants for large-sized breast that mostly affect the milk glands. Implantation for small size breasts and for submuscle gives less risk of breastfeeding function problems.

Breast Implant Surgical Procedures

Breast implantation, or medically termed as mammoplasty, is a procedure to implant a breast implant device within the breast tissue. There are three purposes of this breast surgery: (1) reconstruction, if the breast tissues were damaged by trauma, disease, or other accidents; (2) revision, to fix up the result of other breast surgeries performed previously; (3) cosmetic purposes, to give the breasts an aesthetically better look.

Five Kinds of Incisions

Breast implant emplacement is performed with five (5) types of surgical incisions:

There are five kinds of surgical incisions in this breast surgery:

• Inframammary. This is the incision created around the infra-mammary fold (IMF). This incision will give maximum access to most areas within the breast tissues. Because of that, this incision is usually made if the surgeons want to do an emplacement of the silicone-gel breast implants. However, this incision leaves a thicker, more visible scars onto the breast skin.
• Periareolar. This is the incision created in a border line of the areola. This incision will give a better depth-look into the breast tissue right if inframammary incisions need to be adjusted in certain ways. This incision is also necessary to be created if the surgery includes a breast lift (mastopexy). Unlike the inframammary incision, periareolar incision does not enable surgeons to emplace silicone gel implants due to the small size of the incision. Lucky that this incision is less visible than the inframammary incision because it is located around the areola’s border.
• Transaxillary. This is the incision created in the armpit (axilla). This incision will create a dissection tunnels from where surgeons can emplace the implants. The emplacement can be done both bluntly or with the help of video microcamera, and therefore produces less or even no scars on the breast skin. However, this incision is less acurate in positioning the implant device. That’s why, transaxillary incision in mammoplasty is mostly revised with an inframammary or periareolar incision.
• Transumbilical. This is the incision created at the navel. This incision is actually less common because it creates a dissection tunnels upwards from the bust. It is also so much trickier to position the breast implant device more accurately, although it creates less or even no scars. Transumbilical incision is not suitable to placing silicone gel implants within the breast tissue because of its inaccuracy nature. Moreover, silicone gel implants cannot be inserted through an incision this small because they are more incompressible.
• Transabdominal. This is mostly similar to transumbilical incision. This incision creates tunnels from the abdominal incision to the implant tissue. Mostly, an abdominoplasty is undergone simultaneously with this incision.

Breast Implant Emplacement

By definition, breast implant emplacement is a cross-sectional plan of two different implantantions: subglandular breast prosthesis implantation and submuscular breast prosthesis implantations. There are four different procedures can be apply to perform a breast implant emplacement to the implant pocket within the breast tissue.

• Subglandular. The emplacement is done onto the retromammary area, which is located between the gland and the pectoralis muscle. This emplacement method gives the most good-looking results. However, subglandular position often shows up some ripples and wrinkles, especially in patients with thin pectoral tissue size. This emplacement procedure also gives higher rate of capsular contracture incidence.
• Subfascial. The emplacement is done under the fascia of the pectoralis muscle. Actually, subfascial emplacement is a variation from subglandular position. This emplacement method is still under debate, because some surgeons said that this emplacement method gives a more vast coverage of implantation and better position sustainability, while other surgeons were against this opinion.
• Subpectoral. This emplacement is done under the pectoralis muscle. Because this emplacement can only be done after the surgeon wears off the attachments from the inferior muscle, the upper part of the implant is put under the pectoralis muscle while the lower part is in the subglandular area. Although in some patients the possibility of the implants moving from its initial position is a bit higher, subpectoral emplacement cover the maximum area of the implant and allows the lower part of the implant to be expanded.
• Submuscular. This emplacement is done under the pectoralis muscle, similar to subpectoral emplacement. But, submuscular emplacement does not require the surgeons to wear off the attachments of the inferior muscle. Coverage of this emplacement method can be reached maximally by wearing off the lateral muscle from the chest (the serratus muscle, the pectoralis minor muscle, or the two). In most breast surgery, submuscular emplacement method gives the best result to the breast implants.

Post-surgical recovery

Scars from breast augmentation surgery usually appear 6 weeks after the surgery. It then fades in several months. However, patients can go back to their normal daily life just in a week after surgery as long as they do not do hard physical activities. However, longer recovery time can happen for patients of submuscular placement breast augmentation. These patients can only be back to their daily activities after more than 6 weeks. This is because the incisions of the chest muscles takes longer period to be healed. During this recovery time, it is recommended for the patient to do some light exercises on their arms. These arm exercises are good to let go the pain within the breast tissue. Sometimes, analgesic medication catheters are used to alleviate the pain. Some other advanced techniques of breast implantation enables the patient to recover a lot faster. About 95 percent of women undergoing these techniques can resume their normal lifestyle just in 24 hours with barely any helps of bandages, catheters, and other medical devices.